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Friday, 19 October, 2001, 14:24 GMT 15:24 UK

In pictures: Plight of the refugees

The United Nations refugee agency says more than 3,500 Afghan refugees have crossed the border into Pakistan in the largest one-day influx since the US bombing campaign began.

The UNHCR estimates that 1.5m Afghans could become displaced in the wake of the military campaign, on top of the estimated 5m already living as refugees.

Afghan women refugees carrying their children enters into Pakistan at Chaman border post

An Afghan family pulls its belongings with a tractor at the Chaman border crossing into Pakistan

Hungry Afghan refugee children beg for bread on the outskirts of Islamabad in Pakistan

Afghan refugee children in Khwaja-Bahauddin, an anti-Taleban northern stronghold in the Takhar province

An Afghan refugee outside his home in the refugee camp of Niatak, near the border with Afghanistan in Iran

Afghan refugees from Kabul gather in the Northern Alliance controlled village of Kurbankha

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